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Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: Azzdodd on January 21, 2014, 10:27:45 am

Title: Well my pigs don't like pea's or beans!!
Post by: Azzdodd on January 21, 2014, 10:27:45 am

Local veg shop gave me 4 boxes of sugar snap peas and runner beans I thought that will be a nice treat for the pigs......turned there nose up at it! There far too struck on these pig nuts that cost so much  :huff:

Title: Re: Well my pigs don't like pea's or beans!!
Post by: JulieWall on January 21, 2014, 10:40:47 am

Ours wouldn't eat greens either at first. I guessed it might be because they had never been fed them as weaners but carried on offering them anyway, mixed in with the nuts. Eventually they decided they liked them.

Title: Re: Well my pigs don't like pea's or beans!!
Post by: hughesy on January 21, 2014, 11:14:34 am

They can be fussy. Ours have got used to fruit and juicy veg like carrots and spuds so they often turn their nose up at cabbages etc which they used to love.

Title: Re: Well my pigs don't like pea's or beans!!
Post by: MKay on January 21, 2014, 01:19:35 pm

Crack a few to let the juices out

Title: Re: Well my pigs don't like pea's or beans!!
Post by: Tudful Tamworths on January 21, 2014, 07:10:25 pm

I wouldn't feed raw runner beans. They can be toxic to pigs (and a few other animals, I think).

I remember feeding some to piglets years and years ago and two were really ill. Luckily, they recovered.

Peas will be okay, though.